Johannes Tauler Quotes

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

I am nothing, and not even that.

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

Nothingness haunts Being.

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Oh, what a void there is in things.